"What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork." - Pearl Bailey
abarero was taking drabble request, and upon reading my book of quotes, I discovered quite a few lines befitting of many pairings. I don't know how many people beside me absolutely adore quotes, but I'm thinking someone's out there.
America/Taiwan:
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"True! True!" answered Gerwazy, much moved, "We've all seen
How most strange have the fortunes of our Kingdom been,
And of our Lithuania! They're like man and wife!
God unites, devil parts; God and devil in strife!
From Pan Tadeusz by Adam Mickiewicz. guess who the devil would be.
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"We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness." Ellen Goodman
"True love is love that stays constant for ever, whatever it's fortune; whether requited or scored, filled or sent empty away." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"When I don't see you, I do not sigh nor cry
My faculties and senses do not go awry;
Yet when you are not here for an hour or two,
Someone seems missing, and that someone is you.
And the heart below asks the mind above:
Is this friendship, or is this love?" Adam Mickiewicz
"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed." Carl Jung
... and yes, you can expect more if/when I find some. :D
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I've got one some for SuFin. :3
"Love does not consist of gazing at each other but of looking outward together in the same direction" - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough." - Dinah Shore
"What is intimidating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice." - Pierre Charles Baudelaire
FrUK
"The art of love is largely the art of persistence" - Dr. Albert Ellis
"For God's sake, hold your tongue and let me love." - John Donne
"Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea." - Henry Fielding (Also applies to a fujoshi Hungary. :D)
Any pairings with Switzerland? Except with his sister
"Across the gateway of the heart, I wrote "No Thoroughfare", but love came laughing by and cried "I enter everywhere" - Herbert Shipman
Rome/Germania
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"Two people are more likely to fall in love if their sex drives are evenly matched." - Bernard I. Murstein-- I used Denmark/Sweden for that because... well... yes.
For "Nothing could bring more contentment than seeing the love in your smile and knowing that smile is for me." you said USUK or GerIta or almost anyone... so I took the "almost anyone" and applied it to Cuba/Canada. I hope you don't mind. +_+
Thank you very, very much.
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I used Denmark/Sweden for that because... well... yes
Oh my. You're right! XD Didn't see that there~
I took the "almost anyone" and applied it to Cuba/Canada. I hope you don't mind. +_+
LOL Sure~ That pairing needs more love. :'3
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“Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.” - Joseph Addison
My OTP hurrah! I mean, great quote! :DDDD
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Yes, hurrah for OTP! :3
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Austria/Hungary:
'Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.'
'After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.'
Lithuania/Poland:
'All love that has not friendship for its base,
Is like a mansion built upon the sand.'
'We need not think alike to love alike.'
'I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each others dreams, we can be together all the time.'
America/Lithuania:
'When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.'
'The best love affairs are those we never had.'
'The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through?"'
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“You’re an expatriate. You’ve lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed with sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see. You hang around cafés.”
“It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.”
“It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being.”
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Really, the entire 1920s field of literature supports the France/America pairing. Or, on occasion (*cough*Hemingway*cough*) Spain/America.
(The last quote could really be anyone/America I suppose. It reeks of Alfred though.)
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